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sport of sacred spherical cowsA recurring theme of anti-capitalist discourse, as spoken from a position of <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/perquisitive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#perquisitive</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/classposture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#classposture</a>, is appeal to a folk phenomenology of authenticity, as necessary condition for an ahistorical diaphenomenology of categorical consciousness.To wit, the individual doesn't get to be who they want to be; the answer to this is that they must collectively manifest the properties ascribed to a class.Not because the ideals of the individual are a problem—despite the term individualism being thrown around as bogeyman—but because the targets of ressentiment force the powerless individual to be inauthentic.Thus, said powerless individual must embody the consciousness of an abstraction, being true not to themselves but to an across and a between of category, as such.And by so doing, somehow be freed of the shackles of inauthenticity? By becoming an ideal that is not inherent to themselves, being only inherent to the Platonic idea of a glorified, oppositional, ourselves…<a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/lumpentheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#lumpentheory</a>

sport of sacred spherical cowsIncreasingly coming to think of <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/perqusitive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#perqusitive</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/classposture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#classposture</a> in terms of <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/EgoValue" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EgoValue</a> investments expressed as dedication, devotion and fandom.<a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/lumpentheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#lumpentheory</a>

sport of sacred spherical cows<a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Normalcy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Normalcy</a> is dead. Yet we have yet to bury it. Climate would've killed it—if <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/covid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#covid</a> hadn't.Yet normalcy is dead. Yet we have yet to bury it. We only got so many <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/spoons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#spoons</a>.We can bury ourselves or bury the dead. We only got so many spoons.Use them wisely.❖ <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/lumpentheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#lumpentheory</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#poetry</a>Previously: <a href="https://mastodon.social/@beadsland/109317477421500057" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://mastodon.social/@beadsland/109317477421500057</a>(Originally April 22, 2022 on Xitter.)

"You do you" is Eu-gen-ics.Sitting with the manga Blame! as allegory for production-oriented economic theory.Colonialism: as only seeing the world in terms of making still more world.<a href="https://disabled.social/tags/lumpentheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#lumpentheory</a>

"You do you" is Eu-gen-ics."Symptoms become symbols. These identifications can be limited. Trump's symptom takes us to authoritarian fascism. Miranda's liberal identification brings us closer to…American liberal vision. Both of them are effective at accomplishing their goals. The question is: Are these the right goals?…Our answer is not to dismiss the symptom…is to take the symptom all the way."How can we make particular struggles into universal struggles?…How do we instead, take the symptom all the way?"<a href="https://disabled.social/tags/lumpentheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#lumpentheory</a>

"You do you" is Eu-gen-ics."We think we live in a hyperpolitical age—because of all the identity politics and the cancelling and the culture wars and the everything…but no, that's not politics. That's what happens when meaning becomes a commodity we can buy and sell in the free market. That's pure reaction, pure biological stimulation & algorithmic addiction. What we need is a true universalism—a way to reconfigure all these particulars into a collective popular struggle…I'm sorry, but uh, it's gonna hurt."<a href="https://disabled.social/tags/lumpentheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#lumpentheory</a>

"You do you" is Eu-gen-ics.Relatedly, there's been some discourse over the definition of "working class", a floating signifier if ever there was one, so also have on my todo list a <a href="https://disabled.social/tags/lumpentheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#lumpentheory</a> Venn diagram of <a href="https://disabled.social/tags/classposture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#classposture</a> distribution within the U.S.

"You do you" is Eu-gen-ics."We have some very romantic and poetic notions of hope.…Hope is not an emotion at all.…hope actually is a cognitive thinking approach.…100% teachable.…There are three pieces of it—goals, pathway, and agency.…[P]eople who have high levels of hope in their lives, have these three abilities: they can set goals,…they can cultivate pathways to achieving those goals, and they have a sense of agency.…Hope is a function of struggle."~ Brené Brown"Hope is a discipline."~ Mariame Kaba<a href="https://disabled.social/tags/lumpentheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#lumpentheory</a>

"You do you" is Eu-gen-ics.Key takeaway from the above?Labor organizing is work. Hard work, to be sure; nonetheless not the same thing as organizing for societal change.What Great Depression taught, what even communists of the era had to grapple with, was that identifying as a worker is no bulwark against calamity. We can all be lumpen.Workerism is a familiar model, when such calamity is easier to ignore, when it has not transformed the very geography of our lived experience. Familiar, yet inaccurate.<a href="https://disabled.social/tags/lumpentheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#lumpentheory</a>

"You do you" is Eu-gen-ics.<a href="https://kolektiva.social/@sleepfreeparent" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@sleepfreeparent</a>The "-ee" ending on <a href="https://disabled.social/tags/conveyanc%C3%A9e" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#conveyancée</a>, setting aside the accent for the moment, is akin to parolee or employee: one to which a thing is done. Were this a reference to one collecting such conveyance, the word would end with "-er".The accent evokes corvée: compelled labor as levy.The frame of reference is the construction of the word.Literally, to be of conveyancée <a href="https://disabled.social/tags/classposture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#classposture</a> is to be forcibly conveyed. In the context of <a href="https://disabled.social/tags/lumpentheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#lumpentheory</a>, to be levied as exchange-value harvest.

"You do you" is Eu-gen-ics.Maybe…If instead of kicking the can further down the road…We picked up the can…And finally did something else with it?Maybe…If instead of kicking the can further down the road…We picked up the can…And finally walked away from the road?Maybe…Mishnory…Ain't the road…To get us where we need to go?<a href="https://disabled.social/tags/lumpentheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#lumpentheory</a> <a href="https://disabled.social/tags/KayfabePanto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#KayfabePanto</a> <a href="https://disabled.social/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#poetry</a>

"You do you" is Eu-gen-ics.<a href="https://bananachips.club/@qwazix" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@qwazix</a> Following up on this, so yes, holding different postures at the same time gets into questions of temporalities and embodiment that would be the advanced-level course of inquiry.That is, critique of how the models presented by <a href="https://disabled.social/tags/lumpentheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#lumpentheory</a>, like any models, are necessarily overt simplifications, and thus limited in their ability to describe the whole breadth of socio-phenomenological experience.So, if anything, you've gotten the gist well enough to poke at the boundaries thereof.

"You do you" is Eu-gen-ics.Rather, <a href="https://disabled.social/tags/lumpentheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#lumpentheory</a> begins with humus…Begins with definition of those who are the fundamental matter—the raw material—without which <a href="https://disabled.social/tags/RentierSociety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RentierSociety</a> cannot function.Just as Marx opined the landlord class would be subsumed by the capitalist class, only for the latter to be colonized by the former…So too he suggested we lumpen would rot away—being remnants of "old society"—only for the society that followed to enclose and foreclose us, so to more efficiently farm us.No longer "undefined".

"You do you" is Eu-gen-ics.Marx found us too déclassé to even theorize ("entirely undefined, disintegrating mass"); anti-capitalists still today perceive us as "social scum", useful only to "reactionary intrigues" against the true proletariat.(*cough* "you're only helping so-and-so win" *cough*)Anarchists, meanwhile, idealize a world we are free-associated out of—where folk can freely choose not to care for the welfare of others—say, during an ongoing pandemic.<a href="https://disabled.social/tags/Lumpentheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Lumpentheory</a> is neither anti-capitalism nor anarchism.

"You do you" is Eu-gen-ics.How <a href="https://disabled.social/tags/lumpentheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#lumpentheory</a> understands power in <a href="https://disabled.social/tags/RentierSociety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RentierSociety</a>:We speak of five classpostures: oligarch, <a href="https://disabled.social/tags/perquisitive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#perquisitive</a>, <a href="https://disabled.social/tags/conveyanc%C3%A9e" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#conveyancée</a>, <a href="https://disabled.social/tags/disaccommodation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#disaccommodation</a>, and <a href="https://disabled.social/tags/conquistadas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#conquistadas</a>.We speak of five estates: the <a href="https://disabled.social/tags/KayfabePanto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#KayfabePanto</a>, those of oligarch <a href="https://disabled.social/tags/classposture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#classposture</a>, those of perquisitive classposture, the consensus media, and armed enforcement.Note partial overlap. Unlike the estates of the realm, wherein the third estate were the Commons, in rentier society most classpostures… have no estate.This is <a href="https://disabled.social/tags/tensegrity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tensegrity</a>.

"You do you" is Eu-gen-ics.Mystery.Seems relevant to discussions today.Heart attacks in young people are ever more frequent. Mystery.That which shall not be named lest it grab hold of us. Mystery.There is a reason the <a href="https://disabled.social/tags/KayfabePanto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#KayfabePanto</a> is discussed in <a href="https://disabled.social/tags/lumpentheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#lumpentheory</a> as the first estate of <a href="https://disabled.social/tags/RentierSociety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RentierSociety</a>, to mirror the first estate of the estates of the realm.Just as the rational aren't truly rational, even the secular are not truly secular.Humans ain't machines.We feel.We faith.<a href="https://disabled.social/tags/CovidIsNotOver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CovidIsNotOver</a> <a href="https://disabled.social/tags/BirdFluBegins" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BirdFluBegins</a>

"You do you" is Eu-gen-ics.Whiteness is belief That fascism is Just round the corner.No matter how Many times round The block we've gone.Just round that corner Are our own footsteps, Our own history.Look behind you. Those unfulfilled Retrofuture Promises. Step.Step. Step. Turn. Round the corner. Step. Step. Turn. Round the corner.Step. Turn. Round we go. Step. Turn.Fascism. Is just round The corner.Step.<a href="https://disabled.social/tags/lumpentheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#lumpentheory</a> <a href="https://disabled.social/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#poetry</a>

"You do you" is Eu-gen-ics.<a href="https://kolektiva.social/@violetmadder" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@violetmadder</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/@richpuchalsky" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@richpuchalsky</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/@ciggysmokebringer" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@ciggysmokebringer</a> We need new parables. New language. New terms to discuss these things. This is project of <a href="https://disabled.social/tags/lumpentheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#lumpentheory</a>.

"You do you" is Eu-gen-ics.<a href="https://mastodon.social/@richpuchalsky" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@richpuchalsky</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/@violetmadder" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@violetmadder</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/@ciggysmokebringer" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@ciggysmokebringer</a>There's a reason <a href="https://disabled.social/tags/lumpentheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#lumpentheory</a> speaks of the <a href="https://disabled.social/tags/FrosteanBargain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FrosteanBargain</a>: a reference to Faust, yes, but also to Robert Frost & to Proteus.This isn't the blues musician at the crossroads. Not a one-time deal made at a switch (*ahem*) in the road.Is lifelong commitment. A social contract signed onto in childhood, that must be defended thereafter—through revisionist autobiography—lest one admit they paid full freight & shipping for that bridge in Brooklyn.

"You do you" is Eu-gen-ics.Louder for those in the back!The Whiteness of Memorial without Memory:<a href="https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/112515120725341905" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/112515120725341905</a>There's a reason <a href="https://disabled.social/tags/lumpentheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#lumpentheory</a> calls for <a href="https://disabled.social/tags/mourning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#mourning</a>, not memorializing:<a href="https://disabled.social/@beadsland/112101424416722834" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://disabled.social/@beadsland/112101424416722834</a>

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